Renown Pumpkin Carver Takes Saw to Giant Pumpkin for Local Benefit
10/23/2009
By Jes Burns
Leading up to this weekend’s Jack-O-Lantern Festival at Eugene’s 5th St. Public Market, one of the largest pumpkins grown in the state is getting a face lift.
The centerpiece of the Jack-O-Lantern festival will be a giant pumpkin that weighs in at approximately 700 lbs. and was grown by a farmer in Harrisburg. Nationally renown pumpkin carver Scott Cully recently moved to the Eugene area and on Thursday night took the saw to the monster pumpkin.
Some of those walls were more than 8 inches thick in some places.
“I try to design the carving to bring out the features that are already in the pumpkin. For instances that I left in here. That’s going to be a great nose; it’s just going to jump right off the pumpkin. And it was already there. I just have to carve away everything else around it that prevents it from being seen.”
The Jack-O-Lantern Festival is this Saturday between noon and 9pm. Organizers ask that people bring their own carved or decorated pumpkins to add to the display.
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